BMS502 - Personal Pitch: Skills, Career Paths, Progression Plan

This presentation provides a comprehensive personal pitch, assessing key competencies through a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It addresses the impact of skill gaps and proposes future training and development to mitigate these gaps. The presentation includes a career action plan outlining short, medium, and long-term goals for career progression, emphasizing the importance of enhancing communication skills and practical knowledge. It also justifies potential progression activities and associated barriers, concluding with the importance of continuous skill development for achieving career goals. This document is available on Desklib, where students can find a variety of solved assignments and past papers.

Personal Pitch

Table of content
Introduction
• Key competencies
• Future Training and Development
• Career Prospects
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• Personal pitch is recognised as an overview of an individual the represents
of concise summary related to the experience and skills as a candidate. For
graduate it is very important to develop personal pitch in order to gain
employment for the eminent career and future progression as a graduate
employee thereby addressing the key competencies. Foreign graduate
employee to meet the requirements related to the job specification and
person specification it is very important to gain the effective work-related
skills that will help an employee to seek better future job opportunities. In
order to seek the post graduation it is very important for an individual to
suitably analyse the strengths and weaknesses and skills which will
contribute in the future progression thereby developing short term, medium
term and long term goals as a graduate.

Key Competencies
Personal audit using SWOT Analysis
Strengths-
• I have graduation degree in science background
from the top university.
 I have attained merit in my graduation subject.
 I have top ranker in my class during my
graduation.
 I have done extra certificate and diploma courses
in the particular subject during my graduation.
 I have outstanding technical skills and computer
science skills.
 I am highly motivated and determined towards
my duties and responsibilities.
Weakness-
• I have no prior job experience.
 I have poor practical knowledge in my graduation
subjects.
 I have poor habit of getting late to my work.
 I have low communication skills.
 I have poor presentation skills during the work
meetings and also have lack of confidence to
present myself effectively.
 I have lack of problem solving and decision
making skills.
 I have low leadership skills.

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Opportunities-
• I have opportunity to develop my leadership
skills as they are important for my job as a
graduate.
 I have an opportunity to gain the working
experience for the future career and
development.
 The work from home concept is the
opportunity for me to gain the working
experience by staying at home.
 I have an opportunity to gain practical
knowledge of my studied subject by doing job.
Threats-
• My lack of communication skills are threat for
me as it will abide me to interact with my co
workers and also keep me away from upcoming
opportunities for career growth.
 Not punctual for my work is threat for me as
this will bring bad impact to my performance
and also keep me resist to attain the goals
timely.
 The peers with the better skill sets are the
threat to me as this might not make to selected
in the job of my choice.

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Impact of gaps-
According to the above SWOT analysis my weaknesses and gaps in skills, attributes, and
attitude will overall impact my work related life and also my imminent career progression
and future access to post-graduate employment. As I have no prior experience this might
keep me away from the job profile and vacancy that requires experience. My poor
practical knowledge can impact my interview and also my work performance in working
area because due to this there will be low productivity. My low communication and
presentation skills can badly impact my profile as in working environment these two skills
are highly important to communicate with clients, sub ordinates, fellow members and
customers.

Future training and development
In order to mitigate the gaps and convert them into strengths it is very important for me to
enrol myself into future training and development sessions. Model to develop and enhance
my skills qualities experience it is very important for me to be part of training and
development for my future career progression and to gain best job opportunities. In order to
increase my communication and presentation skills it is essential for me to enrol myself into
communication and presentation skills learning classes as this will help me to understand
the key points required for making good presentation so that I did not like ok in meeting
clients requirement in my presentation and also able to gain their trust and loyalty thereby
by becoming more confident while presenting among other people in the meetings.

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It is very important for me to be a part of training and development session where my lack of
problem solving and decision making skills can be mitigated as it is very essential for me to
take appropriate decisions by planning course of action. For me future training and
development is highly essential in order to mitigate the capsule that is not reflect to my
career as a thread thereby keeping me on track of continuous learning.

Career Prospects
Career Action Plan-
What is
my goal?
How will I do it? Why is it important? When
will I do
it by?
My short
term goal
is to
improve
my
communica
tion skills.
To improve my communication
skills I will interact with more
people in my classes during the
graduation and in work with my
sub ordinates. I will also take
communication learning classes
for gain confidence while
communicating with others.
As a graduate it very
important for me to have
excellent communication
skills as for job search it is
very essential to give
interview for which
communication skills are
must and also in working
area I will be requiring to
interact with my colleagues.
2 months

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My medium
term goal is to
improve my
practical
knowledge of
my graduation
subjects.
To improve and enhance my
practical knowledge for my
graduation I will
participating in training and
development sessions where
I will be given practical task
to utilise my knowledge of
subjects in my graduation
which will improve my
critical thinking skills to as I
will be identifying what
known as I will be required
to complete the task in a
practical manner.
The current business environment as a
job seeker it is not enough for me to
only have a theoretical knowledge
therefore it is very important to
improve the practical knowledge and to
understand how my knowledge is
implemented in the practical work
during my job. Therefore it is very
essential for me to improve my
practical understanding related to my
subjects in my graduation.
1 year

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My long
term goal is
to gain
work
experience.
In order to gain work experience I will
enhance my skills and capabilities and
build my resume thereby applying for
teacher job role in the various
recognised and renowned companies. I
will also work on my interview skills so
that I can clear the interview process to
get the job there by gaining the work
experience. I will work hard in my job
to gain outstanding experience.
My long term goal to gain the
work experience in the top well
recognised firm because it is
important for me so that I can
gain the career progression and
the opportunities for
postgraduate employment. Also
the work experience provides
me with lots of knowledge
skills key competencies that can
be utilised in another job role.
5 years

Progression Opportunities
The justification of some of the potential progression activities and their associated
potential barrier in progression that I pursued to gain career growth and development and
further to attain post graduate employment are:
Gaining the leadership and management skills highly important for my future career as it
will help me in planning and managing the teams during the job can also help me to
develop myself with appropriate leadership style thereby making me responsible and
accountable to manage the various working activities for potential growth and career
progression but it also contains some progression barriers lack of encouragement and
support of higher authorities and lack of promotions and development opportunities
which hinders my progression activities in a significant manner.

CONCLUSION
• It is concluded from the above report that it is very important for an individual to
gain skills that will provide an individual to attain and develop professional career
as a graduate. Therefore it is very important to analysing key competencies that
will help in recognising the shortcomings which will be overcome using the
opportunity and the strengths and to create the current path which will direct
towards the long term goals of achieving the good position in the work related life.
Hence, therefore is very important for a person to appropriately justify the potential
activities for the progress in the professional and the professional development and
to analyse a career development opportunity for graduate in the study sector.

References
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